KRA to tax small traders per product

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Cargo containers at the port. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The taxman plans to start opening containers to compute taxes item by item in a shift that will hit small traders who import in a pool and were paying taxes per kilogramme.

In yet another attempt to collect more taxes from small traders, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will unbundle the goods with individual traders expected to pay taxes for each item they ship into the country.

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